Rome, Italy (PANA) - The monthly Food Price Index of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) declined in December after three months of stability, the Rome-based UN agency said in a dispatch from here Thursday.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – As part of efforts to create awareness on the Cassava Weed Management project, a Facebook and Twitter accounts have been launched, according to a statement made available to PANA Wednesday by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), based in Ibadan, South West Nigeria.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - As South Sudan’s livestock owners flee the country’s conflict, a “silent emergency” has emerged threatening the very fabric of society and further undermining social stability, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned Wednesday as it announced a scale-up in its livestock interventions in the embattled nation.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - As South Sudan's livestock owners have fled the ongoing conflict, millions of animals have been displaced, leading to fresh outbreaks of disease and rising tensions between pastoral groups and farmers, as well as within different pastoralist communities, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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Lagos , Nigeria (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Africa Regional Office has developed three Regional Initiatives (RI) aimed at speeding up efforts against food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa, with four countries including Angola, as pilot countries.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and its partners have said a global effort is needed to prevent the rapid spread of the deadly Fusarium wilt disease in bananas, which poses a severe threat to economic welfare and food security in developing countries.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 2nd Pan African Workshop convened to review progress made on the implementation of Codex Alimentarius standards-internationally agreed upon food standards, to improve the safety and quality of the food consumed in Africa, is underway in Kampala, Uganda.
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New York, US (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have said the Ebola epidemic in the affected West African countries could push the number of people facing food insecurity to more than one million by next spring.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The number of people facing food insecurity due to the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone could top one million by March 2015 unless access to food is drastically improved, UN agencies warned Wednesday.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) –The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in partnership with the Angolan Government and other development partners, have launched a manual on urban and peri-urban horticulture, known as ‘‘Family Micro-gardens’.
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Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - The World Bank has granted Cameroon a loan of US$ 100 million (about FCFA 50 billion) to enable the Central African country to finance its project on investment and development of agricultural markets (PIDMA), according to an agreement signed by both parties.
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Marrakesh, Morocco (PANA) - "South-South cooperation between countries is increasingly important to meeting the sustainable development challenges of our time," said the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, at the first International Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, Morocco, last weekend.
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Chimoio, Mozambique (PANA) - African countries lagging behind on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) still can work hard to achieve some key targets by the 2015 deadline, according to US Ambassador David Lane who is in charge of his government's interventions for UN agencies responsible for food and agriculture.
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Chimoio, Mozambique (PANA) - A UN official has bemoaned food security challenges in Africa saying that countries on the continent are still struggling to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable people.
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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana government has obtained a 95 million-dollar funding to support all sectors of agriculture, fisheries and acquaculture to reduce food import bills, President John Dramani Mahama said on Friday.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) has announced a grant of US$1.5 million in support of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) recently launched Regional Response Programmes to tackle food security and agriculture issues related to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - Belgium has donated 5.8 million euros to support Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) activities that help protect agriculture-based livelihoods for food security and resilience in the face of natural disasters and human-induced crises.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Thirteen countries on Sunday won recognition from the FAO for outstanding progress in fighting hunger, an achievement which includes reaching international targets ahead of the end-of-2015 deadline.
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New York, US (PANA) - If countries of the Mediterranean want to stem the tide on forced migration and human suffering, they must put agricultural, food and rural development, including youth-targeted incentives, at the core of regional cooperation, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is teaming up with a coalition of partner agencies to develop a new data crunching tool to help national overnments, development and relief organizations in their efforts to prevent and respond to crises such as animal diseases, plant pests and even conflict.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - Thirteen countries, including six from Africa, are to receive recognition for achieving outstanding progress in fighting hunger, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Sub-Sahara African countries will need to double their investment in agricultural research and development if ambitious United Nations and African Union targets are to be achieved, according to a new report issued on Wednesday by researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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New York, US (PANA) - In a move hailed as a renewed global momentum to end hunger, leaders from over 170 countries who attended a UN nutrition conference, which concluded on Friday, pledged to establish national policies aimed at eradicating malnutrition in all its forms, from hunger to obesity, and transform food systems to make nutritious diets available to all.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - The World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) on Thursday endorsed the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and the Framework for Action during the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) which ends here Friday.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - Pope Francis has told politicians from around the world to view food, nutrition and the environment as global public issues at a time when nations are more tightly linked with each other than ever before.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - In a major step towards eradicating malnutrition worldwide, more than 170 countries Wednesday made a number of concrete commitments and adopted a series of recommendations on policies and investments aimed at ensuring that all people have access to healthier and more sustainable diets.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) are key players in this week's global nutrition conference, as they are tasked with making sure political promises are kept, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Fish farming will likely grow more than expected in the coming decade, offering a chance for improved nutrition for millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia, according to a new FAO report.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopis (PANA) – A Zimbabwean lawmaker has praised land reforms in the Southern African state, saying the country would soon become Africa's breadbasket after undertaking land law reforms.
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New York, US (PANA) - The Ebola epidemic has bumped up food prices in Liberia and forced families to cope by eating fewer meals and smaller portions, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has hailed Germany for providing assistance to universities in African countries to enhance research on effective land use and management.
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New York, US (PANA) - As Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, leaving more than 4,000 people dead, the region is now on the brink of a major food crisis, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Ms. Hilal Elver, warned on Tuesday.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The United States embassy in Khartoum has commended Sudan for its cooperation with the world food programme and South Sudan in helping to take food to thousands of war affected southern Sudanese.
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Lomé, Togo (PANA) – More than 30 commercial livestock farmers in the northern Togo region of Kara have benefited from 900 million CFAF provided by the government through its agricultural sector support fund to prop up livestock development, PANA learnt Friday in Lomé.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU), the UN and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are launching a major bid to improve the management of land, which has been a source of conflict in Africa.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - The monthly food price index of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) was stable in October, as sugar and vegetable oil prices rose to offset declines in dairy and meat prices.
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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The Congolese government will spend some 4.017 billion FCFA on its General Agricultural Census (RGA) to update national statistics on agriculture, livestock and fisheries, Rigobert Maboundou, the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, indicated here Tuesday during a press lunch.
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Vienna, Austria (PANA) - Industrialisation can be an important tool for poverty and hunger reduction but should not come at the expense of agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - After a poor rainy season, parts of southern Somalia are now being hit by severe bouts of floods, further aggravating the already alarming food security situation in the Horn of Africa nation, experts at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) have warned.
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Rome, Italy (PANA) - Widespread looting and insecurity in the Central African Republic (CAR) have taken a heavy toll on crops, livestock and fishing and is eroding the capacity of people across the country to secure sufficient food, a new assessment by the UN food and agriculture agencies has found.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The European Union is funding a food and nutrition security project in southern Mauritania aimed at strengthening agricultural activities to develop food production and ensure the availability of a diversified diet throughout the year.
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